Beet-puller.



L. PRUE & W. CHARLTON.

BBET FULLER. APPLICATION FILED we. s, 1906.

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PATENTED FEB. 11, 1908.

LEWIS PRUE AND WILLIAM CHARLTON, OF WABENO, WISCONSIN.

BEET-PULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1908.

Application filed August 3. 1906 Serial No. 329-028- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEwIs PRUE and WILLIAM CHARLTON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Wabeno, -in the county of Forest and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Beet- Puller, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descri tion.

The urpose of the invention is to provide a nove form of digging blade for use in beet pullers.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the beetdigging blades.

The machine may be of any desired construction, being composed in the present instance of a wheel supported frame A, carrying a rear platform 12 and provided with a swinging frame A in which is journaled the digging wheel B, and the digging wheel is provided with a plurality of digging blades C secured to the peripheral portion thereof, the lower digging blades having forward curvature, their concave faces being to the front and all of the blades being curved in the same direction.

Each blade C is of the same construction, and one of them is shown in detail in Fig. 3, wherein it will be observed that the blade consists of a plain straight shank 26 which is introduced into the periphery of the wheel B, as is shown in Fig. 2, and the curved or outer ortion of the blade is bifurcated, the space etween its members 27 being smooth and substantially U-shaped; while at the central outer portion of each member 27 a sharp projection 28 is provided in order that the said blades when entering the ground will tend to loosen the ground around the beets to a maximum extent, permitting a ready pulling of the beets, and in said operation of pulling, the lower contracted portion of a beet is received between the members 27 of a blade and the beets are thus carried upward by said blades. As the blades approach the rear platform 12, the pointed end 38 of a finger 37 enters the space between the members 27 of the blade presented to it and removes the beet therefrom, tending to throw it or direct it on to the rear platform 12. This finger 37 is of angular formation and is secured to the central forward portion of the rear platform; and as shown in Fig. 2 it extends upward and forward and slightly downward, the point 38 of the finger being of such dimensions that it will readily pass through the spaces between the members of the digging blades.

In the general operation of the machine, as it is drawn forward the digging wheel B lifts thebeets from the ground and carries them upward toward the rear platform 12 where they are released from the blades of the said wheel and are thrown upon the said platform.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent LEWIS PRUE. WILLIAM CHARLTON.

Witnesses:

A. L. BURGAN, WILLIAM PRUE. 

